Cannot email to Kindle after release 5.29

Bug #1989282 reported by Kirill Romanov
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calibre
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Bug Description

I see that bug was already marked as fixed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1949604, but the problem is still exists for me, even in Calibre 6.4.

I'm on Windows 10.

This is how sent message looks:

To: <myemail>@kindle.com

Subject: E-book: =?utf-8?b?0KbQstC10YLRiyDQtNC70Y8g0K3Qu9C00LbQtdGA0L3QvtC9?=
 =?utf-8?q?=D0=B0?=
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 17:24:12 +0300
Message-Id: <email address hidden>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6880818400639004053=="

You will not see this in a MIME-aware mail reader.

--===============6880818400639004053==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
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--===============6880818400639004053==
Content-Type: application/epub+zip
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
 filename="Tsviety dlia Eldzhiernona - Deniiel Kiz.epub"
MIME-Version: 1.0

UEsDBAoAFggAAD1vL0lvYassFAAAABQAAAAIAAAAbWltZXR5cGVhcHBsaWNhdGlvbi9lcHViK3pp
cFBLAwQUAB4ICAA9by9JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADQAAAE9QUy9zdHlsZS5jc3PNlM9ymzAQxs/hKXTp
....

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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote : Fixed in master

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.

 status fixreleased

Changed in calibre:
status: New → Fix Released
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Kirill Romanov (djaler1) wrote :

Sorry, but looks like this doesn't help. I just tried 6.5.0

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Kirill Romanov (djaler1) wrote :
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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote :

Sigh what incompetent monkeys does amazon employ? I guess I might as well nuke the body text of the email as well. That's the last thing in Cyrillic in the email, which amazon apparently cant handle.

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Kirill Romanov (djaler1) wrote :

Maybe I don't understand something, but for me it looks like problem in mail generation, not in its processing on Amazon side. Because, as you can see, in working variant file is actual attachment, but in current version it is encoded as base64 string

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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote :

all binary data has to be base64 encoded in email.

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Antonio Camas (buhoinquieto) wrote :

Hello,

This fix has created a problem when sending books via email to kindle.

Now the title of the book in the kindle is a set of random characters. The real title doesn't appear in the kindle.

I had to rollback to 6.4 version.

My suggesting is to revert the commit introducing this change. Or at least make it configurable so that the legacy behavior can be kept for most user.

Regards

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